About
our Program:
Face Recognition technology can help you identify and tag people in
your photos, discover related people and recover lost family
connections. MyHeritage makes use of this technology as an excellent
tool for genealogy research.

About our Speaker:
Born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. Graduate from "Moral y Luces
Herzl-Bialik" high school. Daniel received his BS.c. in computer
engineering with specializations in education & management of
educational institutions. He returned to his Jewish day school as a
computer instructor & teacher/director of the genealogy project
"Searching for My Roots," for which he created the educational
materials. He also presented genealogy workshops for students and
parents. Daniel received awards for this project including the "Gonzalo
Benaim Pinto" Venezuela national award. Daniel’s students received 9
consecutive awards (1997-2005) at the "Beit Hatfutsot / Museum of the
Diaspora" international annual competition: "My Family Story". He is a
founding member and lecturer of the Jewish Genealogy Society of
Venezuela – AGJUVE. Daniel has resided with his family in Israel since
2005. Currently he is a member and webmaster of the Israel Genealogical
Society (IGS) and the Horowitz Families Association. Daniel has
lectured at various International Conferences as well as at local
genealogy groups. Daniel has working at MyHeritage, a site you can
review on line at www.myheritage.com. In 2008 Daniel was elected to the
Board of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies.
Admission is free to members of JGSO, $5 donation requested from
non-members (can be applied to cost of membership if you join at the
time).
For more information contact Barbara Hershey,
President/Program Chair at jgsoregon@gmail.com or
503-249-1976.

Sunday
, doors
will open early for schmoozing and research help.

Ahavath
Achim, 3225 SW Barbur Blvd., Portland, OR
$7 for members, $9 for non-members. New members are invited
to join at sign-in.

RSVP to JGSOregon@gmail.com
with your name and the number of attendees or call Barbara
Hershey at 503-249-1976.

Sunday, May 16, 2010 Brunch
with guest speaker
Hal Bookbinder

Enjoy
two programs with a tasty brunch sandwiched in between
Why did our Ancestors Leave a Nice Place like the Pale?
Locating Lost Classmates: or how your missing people can be
found
Why did our Ancestors Leave a Nice Place like the Pale? In
1880 fully 80% of our ancestors lived in Poland and the Pale of Jewish
Settlement in western Russia. We all know of the pogroms (organized
violence) and mass exodus of our ancestors to points west over the next
generation. This talk will provide background on the 120 years of the
Pale from its formation at the turn of the 19th century to its
dissolution during the First World War. It will provide some context to
our ancestor's lives in the Pale, and of course, their decision to
leave everything they had known to make new lives in the West.

Locating Lost Classmates This presentation will demonstrate techniques
used by the speaker to locate missing classmates for a 45th
reunion. These techniques can be applied to finding lost
relatives to help advance your family research. The speaker
graduated in 1965 from Ellenville Central High School in the heart of
the historic Catskills’ “borscht belt”. The graduating class included
117 students, almost all of whom left the Catskills and scattered
around the country. Over the years, the class has held a number of
reunions and has built up and maintains a growing contact list of its
members. In preparation for its 45th reunion a search was launched for
13 missing classmates. Eleven of these had never been located and two
had later gone missing. The speaker volunteered to use his
genealogically-honed research techniques to try to find them and he
successfully located all but 2. As this is being written, the
speaker continues to search for the final two.

Hal Bookbinder has been researching
eight lines for over 27 years, identifying 4,000 relatives and tracing
two of these lines into the mid 1700s. A former president of JGSLA and
IAJGS, he created and continues to edit the annual Jewish Genealogical
Yearbook. Hal has spoken at numerous conferences, synagogues and
society meetings on topics from computing to geography to brick walls.
He is the director of IT infrastructure and operations for the UCLA
Health System, teaches business, mathematics and information technology
for the University of Phoenix and directs continuing job readiness
programs at two substance abuse recovery facilities in Los Angeles; the
Midnight Mission and its sister organization, the Family Housing
Facility. He and his wife, Marci, who were both raised in the legendary
"borsht belt" of New York's Catskills', have four children and four
grandchildren.

Please RSVP for this Annual Brunch Program so that we can be prepared
for all attendees. To RSVP, or for more information, send an email to JGSOregon@gmail.com
with your name and the number of attendees. Alternatively,
you may call Barbara Hershey with the same info at 503-249-1976.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010
7:30 PM

Doors
open at 7:00 PM for schmoozing and assistance with your genealogy
problems.

Where:
Congregation Ahavath Achim, 3225 SW Barbur Blvd., Portland, OR

Genetic Genealogy

Presented by Emily D.
Aulicino

Genetic Genealogy, the use of DNA testing to aid
traditional genealogical research, is a new and accurate field for the
family historian as it can prove or disprove family connections.

In this program, packed with information, learn the
basics of DNA testing and how it helps your research.Learn about
different tests and the value of each.Understand who to test and why.Find out why the new test, Family Finder, is the
next generation in DNA Testing and goes beyond what tests three years
ago could do.Emily will also respond to questions at the end of
her presentation and can address issues such as privacy and engaging
your family’s participation.

A $30 gift certificate toward a DNA
test will be raffled at no cost to those attending her presentation.

About our Speaker:

Emily Aulicino is a retired teacher who
has researched her family’s genealogy for over 40 years, traveling
nationally and internationally for that purpose. She is a speaker and
Regional Coordinator for the International Society of Genetic
Genealogists (ISOGG).

She teaches Genetic Genealogy at the
Genealogical Forum of Oregon (Portland). For five years she has
attended the annual FTDNA International DNA Conferences and was a
speaker at the conference in 2007. In 2008, she spoke at the West Coast
African American Summit in Bellevue, Washington. In February 2009 and
2010, she attended the genealogy and DNA conference in London called
Who Do You Think You Are. Emily has made presentations to many other
organizations. She administers thirteen DNA projects at Family Tree
DNA, seven surname email lists on Roots Web, three genetic genealogy
email lists on Yahoo, and another on Yahoo which helps genealogists and
non-genealogists write their own family and personal memories. She
manages thirteen DNA projects through Family Tree DNA (FTDNA) which
include surname, geographical, and society projects.

Admission is free to members of JGSO,
$5 donation requested from non-members (can be applied to cost of
membership if you join at the time).

Doors
open at 7:00 PM for schmoozing and assistance with your genealogy
problems.

Time:
7:30 PM

Where:
Congregation Ahavath Achim, 3225 SW Barbur Blvd., Portland, OR

Digital Family History Scrapbooking

with Photoshop Elements

Presented by

Sarah Holmes
- Our speaker
says: "I keep learning new things each
time I create a page. There is no better way to keep those brain cells
growing than to learn something totally new. In this presentation you
will be introduced to digital scrapbooking and see some of the unique
things you can accomplish digitally.There are many programs
one can use.I have chosen Photoshop Elements.It is not too difficult
and yet has lots of flexibility."

Sarah Holmes is retired after 32 years in public
child welfare.She started
researching when she wanted to learn more about her father who died
when she was 21.Like
many of us, she had no intention of getting into genealogy.A single trip to a Family History Center started
her quest when one little piece of information told a story she had
never before known.She
was hooked!Her journey has
resulted in reconnecting with long lost cousins.Through her search and
sharing what she has learnedshe
now has hundreds of old pictures.Sarah needed tofindways
to preserve them.Since she is a little
bit of a techno nut she was willing to try new things. When she learned
about digital scrapbooking she found her path.

Admission is free to members of JGSO, $5 donation
requested from non-members (can be applied to cost of membership if you
join at the time).

For
more information please contact Barbara Hershey, President/Program
Chair at jgsoregon@gmail.com
or 503-249-1976.

Sunday, February 21, 2010
1:30 PM

Congregation Ahavath Achim, 3225 SW Barbur Blvd., Portland, OR

Doors open at 1:00 PM for schmoozing and assistance with your genealogy
problems.

This lecture/workshop will elucidate some of the foundational elements
of Russian script used in the 19th and early 20th centuries. If time
permits, we will also address Hebrew, both of which may be used in your
genealogical documents from the Russian Empire. We will discuss the
alphabets, their use in archival documents, key words and phrases that
frequently appear and are of interest to genealogists and the structure
of tsarist and Soviet archives. We will work together to decipher
copies of actual documents.

Where:
Ahavath Achim Synagogue, 3225 SW Barbur Blvd., Portland, OR

When: Sunday
Jan 24, 2010 at 1:30 p.m.

Program:
Heirlooms, Mementos and Genealogy

Do
you own old household items? Photographs?
Letters? Newspaper clippings? Old
jewelery? Do you know to whom they belonged? Toby
Blake will discuss how items like these can aid in your
research. She is fortunate to have many mementos and
heirlooms. She will share some of these items and how they
have impacted her research.

Speaker:
Toby Forim Blake received her MA in Jewish History from
Baltimore Hebrew University. She served on the Baltimore
Community Board of Jewish Women's Archives where she was involved in
personal history interviews as well as other phases of the
project. She has been a Jewish educator in the classroom, in
administration, and for the Baltimore Board of Jewish
Education. Currently she is the International Baccalaureate
Coordinator for the Primary Years Program at Portland Jewish
Academy. Toby has been researching family since the late
1980's.

Where
:Congregation Neveh Shalom, 2900 SW Peaceful
Lane, Portland,
OR See the special note below.

When:
November 17, 2009

Special
Note: Please enter Neveh Shalom through
the first door at the back of the building.Someone will be at
door from 6:30 pm until 7:00 only.
The program will start at 7:00 pm.

Questions and Research

Program:
A research work session with an opportunity to use JGSO's library
resources and get assistance from other members. Bring a
laptop with wireless access, if you have one, and want assistance with
any on-line resources.

Religious
and Secular (and In Between) in Turn-of-the-Century Eastern Europe

Program:To
augment understanding of our ancestors’ way of life in Europe in the
late 1800s and early 1900s this presentation will be about the shift
from traditional religious practice among East European Jews to a much
more complicated religious landscape, including an Eastern European
version of Reform and, of course, secularism.

Speaker:
Natan Meir is the
Lorry I. Lokey Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at PSU. He
received his Ph.D. in Jewish history from Columbia University, taught
at the University of Southampton (U.K.), and was a Yad Hanadiv
postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His
scholarly interest is modern Jewish history focusing on the social and
cultural history of East European Jewry in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. His first book, "Kiev: Jewish Metropolis, 1861-1914", is
forthcoming from Indiana University Press. He is working on his next
project tentatively titled "Jewish Marginals in Eastern Europe," which
explores the lives of widows, orphans, and disabled people in the
Jewish communities of 19th centery Russia and Poland.

Where:Ahavath
Achim Synagogue, 3225 SW Barbur Blvd., Portland, OR

When:
September 15, 2009

Time:6:30
pm doors open for schmoozing; program will start at 7:00 pm.

Program:
JGSO's meeting is designed to get us all off to a good research start
in 5770. First, some of our members who attended the
conference in Philadelphia this summer will talk about the new
resources that were announced and the presentations that they found
most helpful and enlightening. Next, we will offer some unusual
research tips that are simple, yet effective. Finally, we
will try to break down some of the brick walls stalling your research.

We
encourage you all to submit your research problems/dilemmas/questions
to: Barbara.hershey@comcast.net,
in advance. You may bring questions to the meeting, but
having the questions in advance will provide more time for us to try
and find answers.